the old and the hard way is better than the cold techno-alternative:
your tire's popped. walk to your neighbor to borrow their manual pump. spend 2xx calories on pumping. when you return the pump, the neighbor offers to give you a hand with the finishing of the task. you finish your work while chatting with your buddy and when it's over, you invite his family over for diner.
1 point for getting the job done 5 points for screwing the male in you and ask for help 10 points for spending calories on manual pumping and 25 points for the social aspect of the whole thing
technology is good, but having good friends is better (tm)
Next thing we know is that Vogons will announce us, turning every table into a a speaker, that our planet is to be destroyed to make way for an hyperspace bypass...
For consumer products, commercial software vendors should be held to their marketing promises, with a liability of at least the purchase price of the software if they don't live up to it.
How about "For the entire humanity, politicians should be held to their electoral promises, with a liability of a full tax refund if the don't live up to it"?:)
...Its unfortunate that so many people value pieces of paper with writing on them...
infortunate indeed, and even more when coworkers hates you for not taking the same "become an analyst in 6months" course they took (and for not having as much debt as them for that matter:)
...I dont think all companies and organisations within the industry are that judgemental...
or that ignorant. Most big players know that a hobbyist programer usually end up having a more diversified knowledge than a herd students that all went through the same Pascal curriculum.
I can't think of any reason why my current company likes me other than the extra knowledge/experience I got in the same time it took others to get their paper and the different insight/approach I have as a result of my unique and more-than-tailored self-education.
My word of advice (for what its worthed) is to invest that time in sharpening your skills and learning what you like/what matters to you instead of spending it (along with a nice big chunk of your savings) in school.
Best of luck
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And I've seen a lot of "high-ranking executives" have their BonziBUDDY desktop sidekick remember their password for them...
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the old and the hard way is better than the cold techno-alternative:
your tire's popped. walk to your neighbor to borrow their manual pump. spend 2xx calories on pumping. when you return the pump, the neighbor offers to give you a hand with the finishing of the task. you finish your work while chatting with your buddy and when it's over, you invite his family over for diner.
1 point for getting the job done
5 points for screwing the male in you and ask for help
10 points for spending calories on manual pumping
and 25 points for the social aspect of the whole thing
technology is good, but having good friends is better (tm)
like the air we breathe, owned by none yet usable by all.
ok people! time to bet on the name of the next market MS is gonna try take ground in!
right now we have "MS Air, MS Breath, MS OpenWindows and MS eOxygen"
mod this up even more. not only is it funny for english ppl but it's even funnier for french-speaking ppl. your french's as good as my german :P
"not-for-profit" translates "a but non-lucratif"
"non-pour-profiter-emploient le permis" eheheheh
if I'd translate this back in english it would give something like "not to take advantage use the permit" ehehee
Read my message again.
Can you feel the sarcasm?
I know what khaki color looks like.
Canadians don't eheheh
Since we all already doing essentially that when outfitting soldiers (no one wears the bright red of old British regulars anymore)
;)
*ALL* doing this already? You must have missed when they showed on tv a group of khaki canadian soldiers 'blending in' the afghan desert
Next thing we know is that Vogons will announce us, turning every table into a a speaker, that our planet is to be destroyed to make way for an hyperspace bypass...
For consumer products, commercial software vendors should be held to their marketing promises, with a liability of at least the purchase price of the software if they don't live up to it.
:)
How about "For the entire humanity, politicians should be held to their electoral promises, with a liability of a full tax refund if the don't live up to it"?
...Its unfortunate that so many people value pieces of paper with writing on them...
:)
...I dont think all companies and organisations within the industry are that judgemental...
infortunate indeed, and even more when coworkers hates you for not taking the same "become an analyst in 6months" course they took (and for not having as much debt as them for that matter
or that ignorant. Most big players know that a hobbyist programer usually end up having a more diversified knowledge than a herd students that all went through the same Pascal curriculum.
I can't think of any reason why my current company likes me other than the extra knowledge/experience I got in the same time it took others to get their paper and the different insight/approach I have as a result of my unique and more-than-tailored self-education.
My word of advice (for what its worthed) is to invest that time in sharpening your skills and learning what you like/what matters to you instead of spending it (along with a nice big chunk of your savings) in school.
Best of luck
And I've seen a lot of "high-ranking executives" have their BonziBUDDY desktop sidekick remember their password for them...
BonziBUDDY! I sing! I Search! I talk! Heck, I even report market research data behind your back!!! Download Now!
I wonder how many slashdot account I can access with "lefthand"...?